It is then joined by two more tributaries, the Ḥarod on the right bank and the Yābis on the left.
The volume of the Ganges increases markedly as it receives more tributaries and enters a region of heavier rainfall, and it shows a marked seasonal variation in flow.
Below the Vakh confluence the middle Ob changes its course from northwesterly to westerly and receives more tributaries: the Tromyegan (right), the Great (Bolshoy) Yugan (left), the Lyamin (right), the Great Salym (left), the Nazym (right), and finally, at Khanty-Mansiysk, the Irtysh (left).
The river is joined by two more tributaries, one from the north and the second from the south, after which it is crossed by a minor road at Scotsford Bridge.
The Androscoggin, and its more sedate tributary, the Magalloway, are heavily used by canoeists and kayakers.
Its archaic motto could be "What was good enough for me... " Maths and science have merely replaced Latin and Greek as the dogma of the academic establishment, for whom schools are no more than tributary outposts.
We detour into more narrow tributaries, Vedran showing me fields of watermelons and nectarines, and tangerine trees with branches so low that locals harvest the fruit by boat.
Rainfall, on the other hand, would have created far more small tributaries than Surveyor has seen, he says.
Fifteen dams impound the main stem of the river, with hundreds more on tributaries.
It enters the city and the Audubon Society of Portland simultaneously about 2 mile from the mouth, receives two more unnamed tributaries on the right, and flows northeast, entering the part of Forest Park known as Macleay Park.
